Badgery's Creek airport is another in a long list of stunning infrastructure partnerships that Liberal Federal Governments have done combined with a Liberal NSW State Government. It is almost as if when it is worthwhile, ALP should not be involved. Two major works projects which dragged on for decades were the Snowy Mountain scheme and the Opera House. Neither looked like ever finishing until Askin put the finishing touches on them. In contrast, NSW had an Olympics in 2000 under ALP which failed to make a profit and badly diverted major works from permanent infrastructure. It became a lost opportunity. So the five decade prevarication that is the second city airport for Sydney is announced, a stunning success for NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell the day he resigns. O'Farrell has not been premier for very long, but NSW has benefited. Maybe his term in office will be remembered for improvements in public transport. Or maybe for almost all areas of economic activity in NSW, or health and education. But it is unlikely, although true. Some may criticise O'Farrell for his stance on Gonski, or 18c, but that is hyper. The tasks a conservative government must complete have not been completed. He leaves too soon. Scandalously, media journalists are throwing around the word 'corruption' to describe the oversight which claimed the Premiership. O'Farrell was ambushed by a politically charged ICAC over the issue of a wine bottle. It was apparent O'Farrell had not declared it. He has claimed to have forgotten about it. O'Farrell was placed on the stand of the ICAC for a different reason, as a witness, before being ambushed. It was a procedural unfairness. His response was probably anticipated as being denial, which might have allowed the ICAC to derail an investigation into ALP corruption. That excuse is gone, now that O'Farrell has resigned. O'Farrell has behaved honourably. He has met a standard no NSW ALP Premier has met in living memory. I have had to amend my petition. I thank you, Mr O'Farrell and wish you well in your future endeavours.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns to those born on this day, across the years, including

Tim Blair – Wednesday,April 16,2014 (12:56pm)

If a category five cyclone is bearing down upon you and you do not know if your kitchen will be unusable, or when the power will go off, or for how long, boiling eggs is a good precaution.

If, however, the cyclone peters out to a category one when it finally hits, and all you get is fallen branches, not fallen trees and roofs gone, then you have 22 boiled eggs in the fridge that you would very much like to unboil …

If only there was some kind of egg-based holiday or festival happening around this time of year. That would solve poor Crispin’s problem immediately. Meanwhile, here’s a rare domestic hugging chicken:

I call on all those whose lives have been touched by
Deakin to join with me in achieving our vision - that we will be
Australia’s premier university in driving the digital frontier to enable
globally connected education for the jobs of the future and research
that makes a difference to the benefit of our students, our staff and
the communities we serve.

Deakin University journalism lecturer Martin Hirst shows how he is
“driving the digital frontier to enable globally connected education for
the jobs of the future and research that makes a difference to the
benefit of our students, our staff and the communities we serve”:

Barry O’Farrell ... [lacked] a plausible
explanation as to how it was he did not receive a $3000 bottle of 1959
Penfolds Grange his acquaintance Nick Di Girolamo sent him as a gift
just after he won the March 2011 election.
ICAC heard evidence that the precious bottle was sent by courier to
O’Farrell’s home. Under oath Di Girolamo said O’Farrell even called him
to thank him for it. O’Farrell insists, also under oath, he never
received it. Who to believe? ...
His inability to recall the contents of a 30-second phone call to Di
Girolamo the evening the bottle was purchased compounds the suspicion we
are not getting the full story. The episode has exposed O’Farrell’s
lack of candour about his relationship with Di Girolamo. Rather than
barely knowing each other as he has previously implied, it has emerged
the pair had each other’s private mobile numbers and were in frequent
contact.
Di Girolamo says they talked perhaps once a fortnight; O’Farrell says it was more like once a month.
For many, the pertinent question might therefore become: if we cannot
trust the Premier to be up front about his relationship with Di Girolamo
- a Liberal Party fund-raiser and former lobbyist - why should we
believe him about a potentially embarrassing gift?

Counsel assisting the commission Geoffrey Watson SC characterised the
gift as an attempt to “butter up” the Premier and to “grease the wheels”
in order to win favours for AWH…
Mr O’Farrell replied that AWH had never received what it was after — a
lucrative public-private partnership — and the matter had been dealt
with at arm’s length by the public utility Sydney Water…
But the commission ... found a record of a 28-second phone call from Mr
O’Farrell to Mr Di Girolamo on April 20 — the day the wine was bought
and possibly delivered…
The invoice [from the courier] obtained by the commission is dated Good
Friday, April 22, two days after the wine was bought, although it is
unclear what day it was delivered…
Mr O’Farrell ... said he attended a function on Wednesday, April 20, the night he was recorded as phoning Mr Di Girolamo.
He said that his house would have been unattended for several days after
that over Easter, as he had taken his family to the Gold Coast the next
day…
Mr O’Farrell said he had been told by police his house was a ­security
nightmare, with a park on one side, a laneway, and no front fence. He
said there was no 24-hour surveillance of his house at that time.

UPDATE
Barry O’Farrell resigns. A handwritten card has been produced in ICAC thanking Di Girolamo for the wine.
O’Farrell says he accepts the consequences of misleading ICAC, but says it was inadvertent.
I don’t believe he was corrupt or that he lied (or did he...). But we’re
left with the fact that he did not declare this $3000 gift.
UPDATE
Abbott praises O’Farrell for his “act of honour” in resigning.
But he then furiously attacks a journalist who asks whether he trusts
the O’Farrell Government with the airport plan when it has been “proven
to be corrupt”. He demands to know the evidence and says journalists as
well as politicians should be held to “decent standards”. He asks her
to apologise. She backs down and cites only that O’Farrell said he
didn’t recall what he now concedes happened.

UPDATE
The note that destroyed O’Farrell:

Can O’Farrell seriously have forgotten such a memorable gift - a $3000
wine from his birth year? Can he seriously have forgotten a gift that
prompted such a note?
And why did he accept a gift so clearly over the top? Why did he at least not declare it?

“The day before the 2013 election Tony Abbott said there would be no
cuts to education, no cuts to health, no changes to the pension, no
changes to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS,’’ [Opposition finance
spokesman Tony] Burke said.

But wait, there’s been some editing here. The full quote is this:

I trust everyone actually listened to what Joe Hockey
has said last week and again this week. No cuts to education, no cuts
to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to
the ABC or SBS.

A small difference, you might argue. But Abbott referenced the guarantee
Joe Hockey gave, and Hockey three weeks earlier made plain on the ABC’s
Q&A that the guarantee did not apply to trimming waste - say, through the usual efficiency dividend:

TONY JONES: Well, while you are on the subject - while you are on the
subject, is the ABC immune from cuts? Because the Howard government,
when they first came in, cut the ABC 10 and then 2% in two years?…
JOE HOCKEY: I’d just say to you is there any waste in the ABC at all, Tony?
TONY JONES: Say that again?
JOE HOCKEY: Is there any waste? ...
TONY JONES: We’ll just get a quick response from Chris Bowen on this before we move on.
CHRIS BOWEN: Look, I accept that Joe is not going to privatise the ABC. I
accept that that’s his position and he will honour that. I do think the
ABC, though, has a fair bit to worry about when it comes to funding. As
you said, it is what they cut in the Howard Government. We have not cut
ABC funding, contrary to your assertion. I think the ABC and the SBS
are both very important national institutions and they shouldn’t have
their funding cut and you won’t promise not to.
TONY JONES: Well, a quick response to that, Joe Hockey?
JOE HOCKEY: Well, if there is waste, we will cut it.

I agree, Abbott faces a messy argument on whether he’d promised
absolutely zero cuts. His words just before the election imply he did.
But there is a strong argument that he left open the usual efficiency
dividend, from which the ABC is one of the very few government agencies
currently excluded.
(Thanks to reader John.)

We have made an enormous investment in Sydney’s
existing airport. The cheapest further investment of all would be to
make it work better and more efficiently. But for all sorts of reasons,
most of them nonsense, that’s ‘off the agenda.’
Take a second airport to our north, Singapore’s. It services a similar
city population to Sydney. It is also a huge international hub. It
operates more than adequately, with two runways.
Last year Singapore handled 53 million passengers, some 50 per cent more
than Sydney’s 36 million — and it is designed to handle 66 million.

In fact, after all that mockery I’m surprised Tony Abbott’s knighthood system gets such relatively strong support:

Yet as Fairfax Media reported on Monday, Australians are not actually in
favour of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s move last month to revive the
titles of knight and dame. Just 35 per cent of respondents backed that
move compared to 50 per cent against.

Sceptical myself about the knighthoods, I was struck by the surprising
resonance of the words “Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove” when I was
watching an ABC report of Sir Peter’s visit to Victoria. If Abbott
wants to build support for his knighthoods I’d suggest he do what he can
to lure the media into reporting on the Governor-General’s doings. The
more often the public hears “Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove” the
more, I suspect, it will warm to the honorific.

Ralph Blewitt ... has been asked by Victoria Police Fraud Squad
detective Sergeant Ross Mitchell to come to Melbourne as soon as
possible for a formal interview in which he will again admit his guilt.
His solicitor, Bob Galbally, ... said Victoria Police detectives had
advised him that Mr Blewitt, who has been co-operating with police since
late 2012, would be charged with a fraud-related offence....
Mr Blewitt has been attacked as a liar by Ms Gillard, his former friend
and solicitor. As a lawyer at Slater & Gordon, Ms Gillard provided
legal advice to help establish the AWU Workplace Reform Association. The
association, which Ms Gillard later described as a “slush fund” for the
re-election of union officials, allegedly received hundreds of
thousands of dollars from building company Thiess in the 1990s. The
former prime minister has repeatedly and strenuously denied any
wrongdoing, saying she had no knowledge of the operations of the
association…
Mr Blewitt has previously told police in formal written statements how
he and Mr Wilson extracted more than $300,000 from Thiess in return for
industrial peace. The money was allegedly siphoned into accounts linked
to the AWU Workplace Reform Association.
Some of the slush fund money, which police suspect were illegal secret
commissions, went towards the purchase in Mr Blewitt’s name of a
Melbourne terrace house at an auction which Ms Gillard attended with Mr
Wilson, the successful bidder. The law firm handled the conveyancing and
the financing of the mortgage.

TWO Australian citizens ... were killed in a Predator drone strike on five al-Qa’ida militants travelling in a convoy of cars in Hadramout, in eastern Yemen, on November 19.
The men were Christopher Harvard of Townsville and a New Zealand dual
citizen who went by the name “Muslim bin John’’ and fought under the
alias “Abu ­Suhaib al-Australi’’…
Yesterday, Harvard’s stepfather, Neil Dowrick, said… he did not know what had prompted his stepson’s conversion to Islam.
“Whatever it was it straightened his life,’’ Mr Dowrick said…
“They were foot soldiers,’’ [an unnamed senior] counter-terrorism
official said, concerning the role played by the two in AQAP. “And there
was a suggestion they were involved in kidnapping Westerners for
ransom.’’

Suspected Islamic extremists abducted over 100 female students from a
school in northeast Nigeria before dawn on Tuesday, but some of the
teens managed to escape from the back of an open truck, officials said…
Islamic extremists have been abducting girls to use as cooks and sex
slaves.
Insurgents from the Boko Haram terrorist network are blamed for dozens
of attacks that have killed more than 1500 people this year alone.
The group - whose name means “Western education is forbidden” - has
targeted schools, churches, mosques, villages and agricultural centers
in increasingly indiscriminate attacks…
The extremists also are accused of Monday morning’s explosion at a busy
bus station in Nigeria’s capital that killed at least 75 people and
wounded 141.

A PRIMARY schoolteacher who tripped in the street ­because he was
hurrying to get to class has won up to $100,000 compensation.

Denis Field said he was walking at “three times” his usual pace after
being called at short notice to work at Hampton Park Public School in
Sydney’s southwest…
“I tripped over the broken footpath because I was hurrying. I did not
notice the crack. I was worried about being late,” Mr Field told NSW
Workers Compensation Commission…
.... commission deputy president Bill Roche ... found there was a “real
and substantial connection” between the teacher’s employment and the
accident ...

Convicted tax office letter bomber Colin George Dunstan has been awarded more than $415,000 in workers compensation…
Dunstan posted 28 bombs to colleagues and high-profile public servants
he believed had wronged him in 1998. Most were intercepted by police,
however one detonated at the Fyshwick mail centre, injuring a postal
worker…
Dunstan won a two-decade fight for compensation in 2012, after the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal found his former workplace had
contributed to his chronic depression, which led to his crimes. He
claimed he had been left depressed and suicidal after a former lover
sexually harassed and stalked him in the fallout of a soured office
romance.

If the Abbott
Government gets a second term it will need a mandate at the next
election for changing the pension - and that’s why the discussion must
be held now:

TOUGHER pension rules are likely to be pushed beyond the next election as Tony Abbott vows to keep his campaign promise not to change pensions, but to get the budget under ­control....
“If there is one lesson to be learned from the political quagmire that
the former government got itself into, it is: keep your commitments. So
we will keep them,’’ Mr Abbott said.
“But one of the most fun­damental commitments of all was to get the
budget back under control, to put the budget back on to a path to a
sustainable ­surplus....”

Odd, I thought. That doesn’t sound like an argument I’ve made. And
indeed it is not. The headline in fact sums up a stupid argument made
not by me - a sceptic of same-sex marriage - but by an academic who
wants esteem extended to hookers and bigamists. From my article:

Now academic Annamarie Jagose claims that gay marriage is bad because
it will just further oppress the already marginalised, who will be
denied the esteem they deserve, too:

Therefore, the recognition of same-sex couples through marriage is not a
wholly benign or even a neutral act because, like the historic form of
marriage itself, it recognises the worth of some relationships by
valuing them more than others.
Outside the newly enlarged circle of social approval and privilege
afforded by same-sex marriage stand those whose erotic lives are not
organised around the values symbolised by marriage: coupledom, monogamy,
permanence, domestic cohabitation.
Unmarried mothers, for instance; adulterers; the devotedly promiscuous;
sex workers; the divorced; the bigamous and polygamous; those who are
not strangers to the august traditions of the dirty weekend or the
one-night stand; single people.
Now this ragtag bunch might not seem as worthy of social protection and
prestige as the loving, caring, long-term gay and lesbian couples that
are the shiny new poster boys and girls for same-sex marriage. But it
reminds us to ask something that advocates of same-sex marriage, in
their eagerness, forget to ask: why should marriage continue in the 21st
century to be a primary mechanism for the distribution of social
recognition and privilege?

Er, children? If you are so upset by the words then punish the person
who actually said them. Right now it seems you are simply reacting to
prejudice, and aren’t these awards you alleged attempt to fight that
very thing?
More evidence that those most appalled by my articles have never actually troubled to read them.

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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning

We here behold the Saviour in the depth of his sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which his cry rends the air--"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" At this moment physical weakness was united with acute mental torture from the shame and ignominy through which he had to pass; and to make his grief culminate with emphasis, he suffered spiritual agony surpassing all expression, resulting from the departure of his Father's presence. This was the black midnight of his horror; then it was that he descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the full meaning of these words. Some of us think at times that we could cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There are seasons when the brightness of our Father's smile is eclipsed by clouds and darkness; but let us remember that God never does really forsake us. It is only a seeming forsaking with us, but in Christ's case it was a real forsaking. We grieve at a little withdrawal of our Father's love; but the real turning away of God's face from his Son, who shall calculate how deep the agony which it caused him?

In our case, our cry is often dictated by unbelief: in his case, it was the utterance of a dreadful fact, for God had really turned away from him for a season. O thou poor, distressed soul, who once lived in the sunshine of God's face, but art now in darkness, remember that he has not really forsaken thee. God in the clouds is as much our God as when he shines forth in all the lustre of his grace; but since even the thought that he has forsaken us gives us agony, what must the woe of the Saviour have been when he exclaimed, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Evening

God's people need lifting up. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or, if they have, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward. O Lord, "lift them up forever!" David himself said, "Unto thee, O God, do I lift up my soul," and he here feels the necessity that other men's souls should be lifted up as well as his own. When you ask this blessing for yourself, forget not to seek it for others also. There are three ways in which God's people require to be lifted up. They require to be elevated in character. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world's people! The world lieth in the wicked one; lift them out of it! The world's people are looking after silver and gold, seeking their own pleasures, and the gratification of their lusts; but, Lord, lift thy people up above all this; keep them from being "muck-rakers," as John Bunyan calls the man who was always scraping after gold! Set thou their hearts upon their risen Lord and the heavenly heritage! Moreover, believers need to be prospered in conflict. In the battle, if they seem to fall, O Lord, be pleased to give them the victory. If the foot of the foe be upon their necks for a moment, help them to grasp the sword of the Spirit, and eventually to win the battle. Lord, lift up thy children's spirits in the day of conflict; let them not sit in the dust, mourning forever. Suffer not the adversary to vex them sore, and make them fret; but if they have been, like Hannah, persecuted, let them sing of the mercy of a delivering God.

We may also ask our Lord to lift them up at the last! Lift them up by taking them home, lift their bodies from the tomb, and raise their souls to thine eternal kingdom in glory.

Today's reading: 1 Samuel 27-29, Luke 13:1-22 (NIV)

David Among the Philistines

1 But David thought to himself, "One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand."

2 So David and the six hundred men with him left and went over to Achish son of Maok king of Gath. 3 David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal. 4When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him....

Repent or Perish

1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them-do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."

6 Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'

8 "'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down....'"

The devotional schedule is changing for the duration of Holy Week. Beginning this Sunday and going through Easter Sunday, we'll send out a daily Scripture reading instead of the usual mix of Scripture, quotations, and prayers. We hope it helps you focus your heart and mind on Jesus and God's Word as the glorious day of Resurrection approaches!

11 Do not cast me from your presenceor take your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvationand grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,so that sinners will turn back to you.14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,you who are God my Savior,and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.15 Open my lips, Lord,and my mouth will declare your praise.16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

Today's Quote

"We must come before God in silence, as evildoers, in order to obtain grace for the offenses that we have committed. We come clothed in shame, confessing that we are lost, that God might save us through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. In short, we say that it is completely beyond our powers to acquit ourselves in the eyes of God. But he comes to our aid; he does not scrutinize us or enter into account with us. When we have offended him, there is no satisfaction for sin other than the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. The only way we can be cleansed is to wash ourselves in his blood." -- John Calvin, "Freedom from the Bondage of the Law"Something to Think About

Did you make a commitment to do (or refrain from) a particular activity during Lent? How have you done so far? Whether or not you've kept up with your commitment, what have you learned from the experience?

THE TEMPLE TOUR

Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.” (Luke 21:5-6)

The temple still loomed larger than anything else in the spiritual vision of Jesus’ followers. It was after all the embodiment of God’s promise and the symbol of his presence. It was the arena for the ritual and the exercise of the law. Enthused worshipers made their pilgrimages there to make their sacrifices and to admire the massive, beautiful stones that made up its walls. Jesus burst the bubble of the disciples’ admiration when he looked up at the impressive structure, this symbol of stability for the people and said, “this will all be torn down one day.”

It is true, of course, all monuments made with hands, all empires built by intellect and guts do eventually crumble. It is as certain as anything in history. The temple had been destroyed before and rebuilt. But now Jesus expands his disciples’ understanding by telling them of a cataclysm ahead that will tear families apart and bring war across the land. Bible interpreters vary in whether this is a prophesy about the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans some forty years later, or a prophesy yet to be fulfilled. In either case, Jesus’ principle is the same–don’t trust in what you can put your hands on. Our salvation, our redemption, is only to be found in God and his love. Indeed, Jesus said, when life seems to be falling apart around you, you should then “lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near” (vs. 28). He should know. He said that when the temple which was his body would be destroyed, it would be raised in three days, and it was. Any human can re-build stones, but only God can come back from death.

Ponder This: Are there any “temples” or sanctuaries in your life that you know could pass away, necessitating a new level of faith?

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

3 "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 7 "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means "Sent"). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" 9 Some claimed that he was....

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I have performed the finale to Les Miserables before an audience of 500. I have also sung before a similar audience (students, parents) renditions of 'I Will' (Beatles), 'Mr Cairo' (Jon Vangelis) and 'I am Australian' (Seekers). Now I seek another profession because the audience hates me ..